Subgenus Cupido (Everes) Hübner, 1819

Museums

Regional Maps

• Everes Hübner, J. 1819 [1816–1826]. Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge. Augsburg, Germany : Jacob Hübner 17-176 pp. [issued 1819, dated 1816–1826] [69].

  Type species:

   Papilio amyntas Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 by subsequent designation, see Scudder, S.H. 1872. A systematic revision of some of the North American butterflies; with brief notes on those known to occur in Essex County, Mass. 4th Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum. 1871. 24-82 pp. [56]; Hemming, F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Suppl. 9: 1-509 [191] (stated that Papilio amyntas Denis & Schiffermüller is a junior subjective synonym of Papilio argiades Pallas, 1771) (Papilio amyntas Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775, is a junior homonym of Papilio amyntas Poda, 1761; Papilio amyntas Denis & Schiffermüller is a junior subjective synonym of Papilio argiades Pallas, 1771).
• Ununcula van Eecke, D.R. 1915. Bijdrage tot de kennis der Nederlandsche Lycaena-soorten. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 1: 22-30 [29] [junior objective synonym of Everes Hübner, 1819].

  Type species:

   Papilio argiades Pallas, 1771 by subsequent designation, see Hemming, A.F. 1929. Notes on the generic names of the Holarctic Lycaenidae (Lep. Rhop.). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10(3): 217-245 [243].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hemming, A.F. 1929. Notes on the generic names of the Holarctic Lycaenidae (Lep. Rhop.). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10(3): 217-245 [243] (synonymy of Everes and Ununcula)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Lord Howe Island
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
  • Maluku
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Nearctic Region

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

General References

Corbet, A.S. & Pendlebury, H.M. 1992. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia : Malayan Nature Society 595 pp. 69 pls. [235]

Eliot, J.N. 1973. The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 28(6): 371-505 [448]

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [466]

Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1914. The Butterflies of Australia: a monograph of the Australian Rhopalocera introducing a complete scheme of structural classification, and giving descriptions and illustrations of all the butterflies found in Australia, including a number now recorded for the first time. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 239 pp. 38 pls + 3 unnumbered colour pls. [Date published 25 July 1914] [99]

 

History of changes

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